I recently had the pleasure of interviewing playwright, performer, poeta, activista, teatrista, you-name-it Magdalena Gómez about her latest play Perfectamente Loca/Perfectly Insane which received a reading at the Latina/o Theatre Commons Carnaval of New Latina/o Work at DePaul CO_cafecito_m_gomez_headshotUniversity in Chicago this past July.

As always, Magdalena is extremely quotable. Here is just a sampling:

A roomful of people is always multilingual if we expand the concept of language to include nuances, regionalism, dialects, idiomatic intention, cultural and personal histories, inflections, gender, age, and slang

To read more, visit Cafecito: Magdalena Gómez at Cafe Onda and HowlRound.

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